Biography
Tero Suomela is a Tavastian (and Finnish) multidisciplinary artist born in 1971, and currently based in Helsinki. Since his first encounter with art as a teenager he has investigated the human condition as a conflict between reality and imagination, through painting, photography, music, comix and theatre. After a successful career of 20 years in software industry he found his way to Minerva Art Academy in Groningen, Netherlands, where he studied fine arts and graduated 2024. While staying well inside his dear box of his own thinking, he looks outside to reflect on human species and its peculiarities. His art is as ambivalent as his character: a mixed bag of misanthropy and philanthropy, talent and talentlessness, personal and remote.
Education
2000 M.Sc. (Eng.), Information Technology, Software Technology, Mathematics, Hypermedia, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
2001 Advanced Photography Class, Tampere Adult Education Centre
2002 Black and White Darkroom Printing Class, Ahjola Adult Education Centre, Tampere, Finland
2013 Music Theory Comprehensive level ⅔, Tampere Adult Education Centre
2014—2017 Saxophone, Pirkanmaa Music Institute
2018 Art Nouveau Painting Class, Atelier Emmi Mustonen, Tampere, Finland
2018 National Romanticism Painting Class, Atelier Emmi Mustonen, Tampere, Finland
2018 Renaissance Painting Class, Atelier Emmi Mustonen, Tampere, Finland
2017 Live Model Painting Class, Ahjola Adult Education Centre, Tampere, Finland
2024 BFA, Minerva Art Academy, Groningen, the Netherlands
Exhibitions
2006 Mensa Finland 40th anniversary group exhibition, The Finnish Science Centre Heureka, Espoo, Finland
2016 Mensa Finland 50th anniversary group exhibition, The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Tampere, Finland
2018 Mad Spring, exhibition by Uumen collective, Culture Centre Underground, Tampere, Finland
2022 Group exhibition 2nd floor, Groningen, the Netherlands
2023 Group exhibition at Minerva Art Academy, Groningen, the Netherlands
2023 Group exhibition and art event Maydays, Tuin in de Stad, Groningen, the Netherlands
2024 Group exhibition and open studio event, Groningen, the Netherlands
2024 Photo exhibition at Eco-modeshow Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
2024 Graduation Show exhibition at Kunstpunt Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands